‘Made in Malaysia’: Sellers bombarded with ways to evade tariffs


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Online merchants are being inundated with suspicious offers to help avoid paying US tariffs on goods made in China.

Businesses selling everything from athletic apparel and furniture to home health care items have been approached by overseas logistics firms offering to fake the value of shipments to reduce tariffs or divert them through a country with lower levies than China, according to five people interviewed by Bloomberg. 

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